The White Sox return to Chicago in 2nd place, but only 1 game behind the Royals. The month of August has not been very kind to them thus far-they are 6-14 going into a two game series with the Yankees, against whom they are only 2-6 on the year.

Sox fans still had hope. 45,443, the second largest crowd of the year, turned out for this one. The Yankees were red hot-72-50, 1/2 game out of 1st and bearing down...